ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,155, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Tension International Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Sorting conveyor module and assembly" was invented by Robert Terzini (Corinth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor module, a plurality of which is configured to transport and sort an input stream of packages into a plurality of output streams. The conveyor module includes an infinite belt and a pair of presence sensors that detect the presence of a package on the belt. The conveyor module can be combined with a plurality of like modules in a parallel or orthogonal alignment and controlled independently to bi-directionally move packages...